Rich Sudlow wrote: > Greetings > > I have a research group which would like to use Spotlight > in their OpenAFS space - they've told me that this only works > with AFP. Is this true? Have other sites been using > this and might be able to point me in the right direction? > Is there a way to do this globally rather than on every system? > > Thanks for any help you might be able to provide. > > Rich
When Spotlight is used to access index info on remote Leopard systems it is sending a query to the metadata server on the remote machine. AFS has no metadata server as a result there is nothing for such a query to be sent to assuming that the afs client could be programmed to receive the query in the first place. If you configure Spotlight on each machine to index /afs it will try to index all of the /afs namespace from every machine. This is probably not what they want. I have sent a query to Apple asking whether there is a method of AFS processing the queries so if/when we have our own metadata service we can connect it to Spotlight. Jeffrey Altman
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